Cantrell's son Billy Allen, 81, said that along with a morning cup of
“coffee pudding,” or coffee with lots of milk, sugar and a biscuit, the
Texas centenarian starts each day with a few pieces of bacon.

“Every day she gets up and [today she] said Bill ‘I'm ready for my
bacon,'” Allen told ABCNews.com. “[She] eats two pieces nearly every
morning.”

But bacon isn't the centenarian's only ‘healthy' habit, Allen said
his mother was active his whole life. She spent her days in the fields
of the family farm in San Saba County, Texas, after Allen's father died
in the 1940′s. After her husband's death she raised her seven children
on her own.

Allen said not only was his mother active by picking cotton in the
fields during the day, but that she always loved to dance and even
waltzed at her 105th birthday for a few dances.

“It's not really surprising because red meat consumption has been
linked to an increased risk of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular
disease and cancer,”
said Dr. Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the
Harvard School of Public Health and co-author of the study, told
ABCNews.com last year. “What is surprising is the magnitude of risk
associated with very moderate red meat consumption.”

However, Cantrell doesn't have plans to change her habits.

“She's [slowed] down a bit,” said Allen, who along with his four
surviving siblings takes care of his mother. “[But] she's getting to be a
handful.”